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November 4, 2013

Officina Roma

ENGI just joined a group of people planning a "Trash Pavilion" to open its doors to all city-dwellers in Helsinki next summer, and while working on the group's Pinterest (told you I love it) page last night, I came across two gems:

First, Officina Roma, an experimental villa built during a one-week long workshop by 24 high-school students from all over Italy and consisting of a sleeping room, a kitchen and a workshop.

There's no living room, a "comfort zone", so to say, instead there is an empty workshop in the center. In fact, the whole building "talks about the essential necessity to question our lifestyle, based on individuality, completion (competition), growth and exploitation of natural resources."

Like a collage, Officina Roma was entirely built out of trash: old bottles, furniture and oil barrels, used car doors and dry wall profiles, as well as wooden windows...

The other gem I stumbled into was a $500 cottage built almost entirely of old wooden windows! See this video about Nick Olson and Lilah Horwitz, it's full of love!

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Recyclie, that's me, a foodie gone (re)cycling: This blog's all about bicycle riding, living and cooking on a shoestring, and, naturally, recycling, or "repairing, repainting, reinterpreting, reviving, redeploying or simply relishing" – to quote one of my favorite interior designers and authors, Ilse Crawford–, feminine and Finnish style, with an Italian twist. In real life, I'm a Helsinki-based interpreter and translator, as well as the author of "Reilun kaupan ruokaa ja elämää" (Perhemediat, 2009), that is, the first Finnish Fairtrade cookbook.